To ask what stuff you have to have out in the house that you'd rather not?

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Just some light relief from petrol angst.
Mine would be OHs running trophies which line the front of several bookshelves. I'm proud of him for being so fit and getting them, but they're all so fugly: tacky cups or blocks of wood ) resin with plastic 'medallions' glued to them. Why don't they offer something useful like a t-shirt?

Most stuff from the ILs.

We like a mixture of scandi/antique styles, they like their home to look EXACTLY like page 32 of the Next home catalogue.

And my husband's gran painted us a picture for our wedding. She's been to our house plenty of times. She's seen the art we like on our walls. She is very talented, and I've SEEN her do art that would fit with ours. And she paints us this horrible piece which is totally not my style and doesn't even have nice or meaningful subject matter. (Think, she could have painted us a Japanese style fruit bowl in bright colours but instead painted a picture of a dead horse in muted colours).

The lawn mower in the kitchen! Nowhere else to keep it, if we leave it outside it will be stolen - anything outside is fair game round here unfortunately.

An antique clock that my Dad left me in his will. I cannot get it to work. It's been to the clock menders several times and always works perfectly for them, but as soon as I get it back on my wall the pendulum does a few half-hearted swings and then meanders to a stop (and yes it is wound up). I can't put it in the loft otherwise it will just moulder away and is a lovely thing to look at but it's supposed to TELL THE FUCKING TIME!

Pills and potions and syringes and feeding tubes and catheters and incontinence stuff and general medical supplies which have to come monthly or three monthly and are stacked floor to ceiling in places because We Have No More Room.

Paperwork and forms and records and lateral flow tests and and aprons and gloves and disposable masks and everything which is turning my house into a hospital ward.

Batteries and chargers and leads and cables and endless bits of kit waiting to be collected or grown into.

Empty cardboard boxes which can’t go out for recycling until next week but which can’t just go in the garden or they’ll be turned into pulp with the rain.

Nothing. It is making me anxious reading these. I keep the kettle and toaster in the cupboard

Currently…flea traps! Obviously our cat and house have been treated but our elderly neighbours keep luring all the local felines into their house with tasty wet food so we keep having to kill all the ones he brings back! so gross

Pretty much everything of OH's really, I just keep thinking of how much space I'd have for new books if he wasn't taking up a whole shelf of valuable book space on my 2nd bookcase with his playstation games. He also has these hideous old Natwest pig ornaments sitting on top of a kitchen cupboard, I'm not keen on ornaments and I don't like pigs!

@longwayoff

Countless framed pics of gchildren which arrive courtesy of DIL several times a year. I think its naff to have them all over every available surface; she thinks the opposite. So there they are for the sake of family harmony.

That's awful for you. Couldn't you tell her you've gone digital? You could say it's easier to show other people if they are on your phone whether you do or don't

I've just remembered I've got a whole room full of cd's, amplifiers, guitars, music stands etc of DH's. I literally never go in there and had completely blanked it from my mind

@squashyhat

An antique clock that my Dad left me in his will. I cannot get it to work. It's been to the clock menders several times and always works perfectly for them, but as soon as I get it back on my wall the pendulum does a few half-hearted swings and then meanders to a stop (and yes it is wound up). I can't put it in the loft otherwise it will just moulder away and is a lovely thing to look at but it's supposed to TELL THE FUCKING TIME!

Silly question but is the wall plumb straight? If there's a wee bit of an angle off the vertical it could cause the pendulum to not (pendule? It should be!) work.

HENRY the fucking hoover. I want to smash the smiling wazzocks face in but need it to clean my house. It does not 'fit' anywhere but our living room corner. Arsehole.

@Picklypickles LTB for the NatWest money banks alone

My partner (female) has 97, yes 97 items out in the bathroom. Drives me, the minimalist, with 9, insane. That's just for starters

2 trays of cacti which live on the window sill in our bathrooms. They don't look healthy specimens, lean in all directions, some of them look phallic but DH won't get rid of them as some of them were descendents of specimens belonging to his DM - which in turn came from her DF.
We spent thousands having the bathrooms brought up to date only to have these ugly things adorning the rooms.

Bono

On lockdown #1, DH's employer closed their offices and decided not to open again, so gave up the lease. Loads of projects and all the associated tech and components came home and cluttered up our dining room. DH took up residence in the garden room so did Zoom meetings and conference calls from there, necessitating "Please stop the tumble drier/Don't use the washing machine, doing Zoom/conference call" requests. That was bad enough...

Then sadly FIL died in December and lots of paperwork and some of his belongings came back from his flat. Boxes and boxes of it. Stored in the dining room and garden room until it can get sorted (work in very slow progress, as plenty other things to do like work and probate). Then sadly MIL died in March. Again, lots of boxes of paperwork and stuff from her two properties, added to dining room and garden room. Both in-laws kept everything their parents ever had; birthday and Christmas cards, certificates and licences, passports and photographs, records of financial transactions in minute detail. Boxes and boxes of it.

I could weep at the mess, but obviously I can't complain as poor DH has had enough to be going on with. But it's all really getting me down. I like our house to be reasonably neat and easy to keep clean, heaps of stuff and boxes are neither.

@TheOrigRights
They might not be the best quality but at least T-shirts can be worn (and in due course,worn out😁) unlike bloody trophy tat...

We moved in five years ago and I hated every light fitting in the house. As time goes by I’m getting rid of them but still got hideous 1989s gold sconces in the lounge.
Also at our previous house we had a glass painting of a lion looking at his reflection (no, it was worse than you imagine) hanging from a chain, that MIL bought us. When we moved, I thought that she would never be able to visit as it’s too far and she can’t stay over as we don’t have a stair lift so off it went to the charity shop. For her Christmas present last year my nephew bought her an iPad and downloaded FaceTime. She has asked a couple of times to see the Lion - I had to lie and say we still hadn’t found the right place for it. If she keeps mentioning it I’ll have to trawl eBay for another one!

Some of my kids' artwork. Furniture and paintings from my husband's bachelor days.

HIM

Dhs computer/desk set up. Was nicely hidden in the second bedroom, then we had DS, so the only home for a fuck off huge desk and gaming pc logical place was the living room.
Everything else is put away in baskets neatly.

This.

So. Much. Shite. A million pairs of shoes some unworn in boxes. A video camera from the dark ages. A PlayStation steering wheel that’s been used once in 20 years.

Boxes for every electrical item we own and some we no longer have.

All DHs. I’m getting rid of my stuff in protest. Except my empty gin bottles. I’ll put lights in them one day.

Swimming kit. I'm a keen swimmer, and the DDs are in swimming club so there are damp towels and swimming costumes draped over radiators all over the house all the fucking time. Never mind the enormous swimming bags with kick boards and pull buoys and fins that apparently have to be left in the hallway. sigh.

DVDs. I freakin hate dvds, they're ugly, look tatty, take up loads of space and we don't even watch dvds anymore, everything happens through prime or Amazon or whatever. DH has literally hundreds!! I've so far filled up three bin bags worth and put them in the garage and there's still more.
I also hate having things on the side in the kitchen, like kettles and toasters...anything.. But obviously not really practical to put them in a cupboard.

@Doglicks

Thousands of Northern Soul records. (DHs)

Some of those would be worth a fortune. That said I'd be happy to take the clutter off your hands..